The public is badly misinformed about the monetary system, government deficits and national debt.
The truth about these issues is child’s play in the Colouring Book by Dr Stephanie Kelton, an economist at University of Kansas-Missouri. Continue reading
Calderdale Protest Against the Bedroom Tax campaigners were “gobsmacked” at some of the information they received, when they asked Calderdale Council what it was doing to oppose the Bedroom Tax and support people suffering under it.
This was what a full Council meeting had committed to on April 24th 2013.
Answering the campaigners’ questions at the full Council meeting on 27th November, Councillor Swift said that around 1200 households in Calderdale are liable for bedroom tax.
Phil Smith, from Calderdale Against the Bedroom Tax, reports on the 7th September 2013 presentation of individual tenants’ evidence to the United Nations special rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnick, and the preceding meeting of the Steering Group of the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation in Manchester.
I attended this meeting, held at Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester, on behalf of Calderdale Against the Bedroom Tax – and what a day it transpired to be!
By Gill Main, University of York – republished from The Conversation
Michael Gove’s recent suggestion that inadequate financial management skills among poor families are to blame for the increasing demand on food banks has, unsurprisingly, sparked an angry response. Critics feel the Conservative Party is out of touch with the pressures on ordinary families.
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Another day, another demonstration of how the system is ideologically rigged so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Common Agricultural Policy subsidies take our public money, provided by ordinary tax-paying, working people, and hand it over it to millionaires, Dukes and our own Elizabeth Windsor aka The Queen. For what? For doing nothing and owning lots of land.
It all comes down to entitlement trading – an expression that says it all really.
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Kirklees Green Party member Adrian Cruden reports from the People’s Assembly Against Austerity in London on Saturday 22nd June
Four thousand people from a wide range of progressive political parties, trade unions, community groups and individuals gathered at Methodist Central Hall in London on Saturday 21st June to launch the People’s Assembly Against Austerity – perhaps the largest gathering to discuss alternatives to the current neoliberal economics being pursued by the Coalition and, seemingly, endorsed by Ed Miliband’s Labour Party. Greens were in strong evidence as speakers, organisers and attendees, and Romayne Phoenix, former Green leadership candidate, chaired the opening session. Caroline Lucas, Natalie Bennett and Cllr Liz Wakefield spoke in breakout sessions on housing and green jobs.
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A Todmorden Town Councillor, Mark Caterall, is the only Councillor in the Upper Calder Valley on the list of initial signatories to Councillors Against Cuts Founding Statement. How many Councillors in the Upper Calder Valley have signed up since?
Councillors, please let us know!
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Info here about the Calderdale campaign to stop the bedroom tax